Consultancy Accenture (Accenture) 21 of published reports say, faced with growing logistics and transportation cost, most of Americas large manufacturing enterprise is considering the factory from low cost of Asian countries migration to the United States or Latin America. According to the financial times reported, Japan happened to global supply chain earthquake and tsunami that caused great destruction, also highlight a phenomenon, namely multinational manufacturing enterprise if lack of key components, would be in a very passive situation.
For example, the American automakers General Motors (, Louisiana Motors) before a production factory, the pickup due to lack of parts by Japanese usually provide planned for recently discontinued. Aircraft manufacturer Boeing 787 Boeing) (787 Dreamliner aircraft (type dream) over a third of parts by Japanese enterprise manufacturing. Boeing says, inventory parts in the next few weeks is to meet the production requirement, but since then cannot guarantee. For the 787 aircraft manufacturing kitchen Japan Jamco company warned that fuel shortage could affect delivery.

By operating income calculation of the worlds biggest turkmen equipment manufacturer Caterpillar (Caterpillar) says, the company worldwide factory may because Japan supply chain interrupt and "being sporadic influence. The company has already made by Japan for original supplier of components found alternative sources.

Japans problems may make large manufacturing enterprise to reassess its global supply chain risk. Accentures the report shows, far before the earthquake happened, these companies has been seeking to simplify the supply chain, make it more close to the terminal market.

Accenture survey of manufacturing enterprise executives about 61% said, had considered through the manufacturing and supply authorities migration to national or "offshore" (nearshoring) sites so that supplier and needs much more closely.

Accenture responsible for process and the innovation achievements managing director matt? Riley (Reilly) says, thism in the next three years may be triggered a wave of migration factory trend, U.S. large manufacturing enterprises from production department will be moved to the United States in Asia and Latin America. Riley said: "over the past five years, enterprise keen on labor costs arbitrage and chasing lower raw material costs."

"But now oil and transport prices, productivity benefit is not so big. In addition, before the problem in supply chain risk, so enterprise began to move, no longer customer sites located selection of raw materials. He said customers on time and stronger faster supply customized demand is driving the change. "Manufacturing innovation field, and many are dynamic about positive for fast customer feedback, and inject to supply chain, such functions and characteristics to change soon," he said. "If the factory in Thailand or Japan operation, it is hard to do that."

Some other multinational companies also warned that their supply chain could be affected by Japanese earthquake interference, including Sony Ericsson (Sony Ericsson), Volkswagen (Volkswagen), Volvo (Volvo), and the British cars and aerospace parts manufacturers GKN. The Japanese company is now actively reopen domestic factory, but they need all the suppliers also have to open the door to just go. NISsan (NISsan) says, the company will reopen today, but only five factory production parts, not assembly vehicle. Its production capacity will depend on parts supply and is located in the sixth FuDaoXian (Fukushima), this factory factory near the damaged f island position first nuclear power plant.